British American Tobacco is to axe 2,300 jobs, including a fifth of senior roles, as the cigarette maker restructures its business amid waves of industry change. The maker of Lucky Strike and Camel cigarettes on Thursday described the decision as a...

“It is especially concerning, moreover, that the rule the government promulgated topples decades of settled asylum practices and affects some of the most vulnerable people in the Western Hemisphere – without affording the public a chanc...

A year ago, the rallying cry among Chinese policymakers was deleveraging the economy — but now the country’s senior leadership is moving quickly to revive bank lending in a fight against flagging economic growth. The change in tactics, underlined b...

A student had to have a testicle removed after five different GPs missed signs of a condition which left him in “severe pain” for six days, an investigation has revealed. The 20-year-old, identified only as Ryan, awoke one morning to an “intense p...

A consortium led by defence group Babcock International has won the competition to build new frigates for the Royal Navy, securing hundreds of jobs at British shipyards, including in Northern Ireland and Scotland. The deal throws a potential lifeli...

Several states including Connecticut, North Carolina and Washington have rejected a provisional deal with Purdue Pharma and members of the controlling Sackler family, which is trying to settle legal liabilities related to the US opioid crisis. Josh...

Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly disavow the forecasters’ position that Alabama was not at risk. NOAA, which is part...

Mexicohas given another $5bn in aid to state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos as the former monopoly launched a bond swap designed to stave off the risk of a catastrophic debt downgrade. The cash injection comes just days after the leftist nationali...

The Brexit Party leader could barely believe what he was hearing when it was revealed that the highest civil court in Scotland ruled Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament as “unlawful” and “improper”. The Brexit Party leader said: “This i...

Apple unveiled new iPhones yesterday that are largely unchanged from previous models, accompanied by an unexpected price cut for the cheapest model, underscoring the company’s efforts to counteract a sales slump of its flagship product. The company...